Echographic measurement of skin thickness in sites suitable for intradermal vaccine injection in infants and children

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 8438-8442

  Ploin, Dominique ^a   Schwarzenbach, Florence ^b   Dubray, Claude ^c   Nicolas, Jean François ^d   Goujon, Catherine ^d   Trong, Michele Dao ^b   Laurent, Philippe E ^b  

^a HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^b Becton Dickinson France SAS   (France)

^c SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Children; High resolution ultrasonography; Skin thickness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACK; BODY MASS; CHILD; DELTOID MUSCLE; DERMIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MALE; SKIN; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 80053933752     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.07.111     Document Type: Article

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